sigokat Wrote:Finished Long's The Descent the other night. Well, it was a good book, but like others have said it got somewhat wordy and slowed down a lot in the middle. I felt that so much was placed on the expeditions progress and then the ending was just thrown at us and we were expected to be like "Oh okay, I get it now." I was pretty disappointed with the way it ended.
Also, it took me about half of the novel to realize that all those chapters about hadals on the surface were just to show that they were in fact getting up to the surface and that they had nothing to do with the actual plot of the story. And the chapter with the young boy and the witch hadals...yeah, that could have been edited out completely. I felt sick after reading that.
Yeah, I agree with the chapter about the witch hadals. I think he was trying to show how the hadals had influenced mythos and folklore throughout time by showing them in a current setting, but that is just my opinion.
I liked this book a lot as I mentioned but I think it was mostly the idea of some new world, people with a new hostile race, being found and explored. There were definitely flaws but I found it pretty easy to look past them.
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